A new newspaper aims to fill a gaping hole at the heart of Zimbabwe’s media market, reports Richard Saunders A new independent newspaper will hit Zimbabwe’s streets next week in an effort to keep alive a faltering voice in the national press. The Zimbabwe Independent, a business-oriented weekly, comes in the wake of a crisis […]
Ann Eveleth A strike by awaiting-trial prisoners in Durban’s Westville prison entered its second month this week. At least six prisoners have escaped and hundreds of others are refusing to attend court proceedings until their demands are met. Topping the prisoners’ list of grievances, presented to the ministries of justice, safety and security and correctional […]
night Bafana Khumalo ‘Now what is wrong with this guy? Where did he get his licence? Pep Stores?!!” It’s another adventure starring yours truly, children. This time I am sitting in a taxi and the driver is not a happy man at all. His unhappiness stems not from the fact that he has to spend […]
RUGBY: Jon Swift THE shambolic machinations of the disciplinary procedures evident throughout the Super 12 this past week have all the hallmarks of a South African Everest expedition. Queensland Reds winger Damian Smith is sent off against New South Wales for two dangerous head-high tackles, and less than a week later appears without sanction against […]
The man at the centre of a black-white battle for Zimbabwe’s tobacco trade has links with a former CCB agent, reports Jan Raath The delicate perfume of freshly cured, silk- textured, golden tobacco leaf wafting from the sprawling tobacco auction floors in Harare is the setting for Zimbabwe’s latest race tangle. A bitter black-white war […]
THEATRE: David Le Page BESSIE HEAD’S novel Maru is a stark dissection of racial prejudice, all the more compelling for looking at the relationship of black Batswana and the Bushmen. It is not a perfect novel, but there is enough insight, and unexpected writing, to make it memorable. Walter Chakela’s adaptation for the stage, now […]
The exclusion of wine products from the EU free trade agreement negotiations has had wine farmers calling for tariff protection. Lynda Loxton reports South African wines have taken the world by storm, but the wine industry is growing restive about the possible unfair competition it could face from imports. This week, KWV chairman Lourens Jonker […]
An MD allegedly interfering with editorial content, reporters fearing for their jobs? What, or who, is going down at the Sowetan? Jacquie Golding-Duffy speaks to both sides While New Africa Investments Limited (Nail) is gearing up to bid for newspapers in the Times Media Limited stable, some of the consortium’s board members are facing accusations […]
exploitation In advertising one ‘must use whatever one can to make whatever point one needs’. But are children abused by this system? A decision by the Olympic Bid to use the photograph of an impoverished child in its ad campaign has sparked a debate on the ethics of using children in marketing. Jacquie Golding- Duffy […]
‘Advertisements’ like the one below are popping up in publications around the world. Now the M&G joins in The Fear Project Hazel Friedman ADAM BROOMBERG knows what it is like to be shit-scared. Literally. Or, rather, he has a mediated understanding of it from reading articles on experiments in which white mice were exposed to […]